First edition of these fables and brief sketches by the American master of dry wit. This is BAL's first printing, with advertisements at rear beginning "By Anna Fuller." The elaborately decorated cover, with a king and a cat regarding one another on the front cover and a crimson candle (from the second anecdote) on the backstrip, is striking. BAL 1120. Starrett 16. Wright, III: 522. Formerly in the Skidompha Free Library, Damariscotta, Maine, with bookplate on front pastedown, small rubberstamps to endpapers and title page, trace from removal of pocket from rear endpapers.

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